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An Unlikely Partner to Counter Cyberattacks

To combat increasing ransomware attacks on U.S. cities, the National Guard needs help from Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. AMID THE COVID-19 pandemic, ransomware attacks have increased 148 percent over baseline levels from February 2020. This follows an already devastating surge in ransomware attacks against state and local governments. Hackers made headlines on August 16, 2019, after they remotely blocked

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Thunderbolt Flaws Expose Millions of PCs to Hands-On Hacking

The so-called Thunderspy attack takes less than five minutes to pull off with physical access to a device, and affects any PC manufactured before 2019. SECURITY PARANOIACS HAVE warned for years that any laptop left alone with a hacker for more than a few minutes should be considered compromised. Now one Dutch researcher has demonstrated how

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Stealing your SMS messages with iOS 0day

This is a special post because I fully based on another researcher, s1guza’s 0day. All of this story began from the following tweet:Siguza told us that his 0day was patched in the iOS 13.5 beta3. So this is actually a sandbox escape 0day for the newest, non-beta iOS version (13.4.1). In this post, I’ll show…

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Experts Doubt the Sun Is Burning Coal (1863)

Originally published in August 1863 Credit: Scientific American “If the sun were composed of coal, it would last at the present rate only 5,000 years. The sun, in all probability, is not a burning, but an incandescent, body. Its light is rather that of a glowing molten metal than that of a burning furnace. But…

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I gave away my books and sales increased

In March, I made my DevOps books free to help anyone who wanted to learn new skills during the global pandemic lockdown. In April, Device42 generously extended that offer for another month. I originally had the idea to give the books away on a whim on a Sunday night, thinking I’d give up a fair…

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Show HN: Caddy 2

All-new core ✨ After 14 months of redesign, Caddy 2 has a whole new architecture inspired by 5 years of experience and feedback from v1. Fewer moving parts ⚙️ Caddy saves money, increases developer productivity, and reduces problems in production. A whole new server experience Play screencast to see Caddy serve HTTPS in < 1…

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Apple, Google ban use of location tracking in contact tracing apps

FILE PHOTO: The Apple Inc. logo is seen hanging at the entrance to the Apple store on 5th Avenue in Manhattan, New York, U.S., October 16, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Segar(Reuters) – Apple Inc (AAPL.O) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google on Monday said they would ban the use of location tracking in apps that use a new…

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Extremely disillusioned with technology. Please help

I was drawn to programming, science, technology and science fiction ever since I was a little kid. I can’t say it’s because I wanted to make the world a better place. Not really. I was simply drawn to it because I was drawn to it. Writing programs was fun. Figuring out how nature works was…

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2020 Pulitzer Prize Winners

© The Pulitzer Prizes — Columbia University, 709 Pulitzer Hall, 2950 Broadway, New York, NY 10027

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Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs

In 2015, we kept hearing the same request. It went something like: “I love your computer backup service, but I also need a place to store data for other reasons—backing up servers, hosting files, and building applications. Can you give me direct access to your storage?” We listened, and we built Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage.…

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